Senior SRE & Observability Engineer for Reliability

Aanseacore; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aanseacore is seeking an experienced SRE/Observability Senior Engineer with 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Observability. You will own observability strategy, instrumentation, monitoring, tracing, dashboards, alerts, and incident management across distributed applications.

You will build dashboards in Grafana and Kibana/ELK, implement OpenTelemetry, define SLIs/SLOs, tune alerts, support on-call, and collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Compliance to improve platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Observability Engineering.
• Hands-on with two or more of New Relic, Grafana, Kibana/ELK.
• OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging, and log aggregation.
• SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, MTTD, MTTR knowledge.
• Prometheus, APM, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• BI tools such as Looker, DataStudio, Power BI are a plus.
• Argo/ArgoCD and incident/service management tools preferred.
• Security, audit logging, PII, data access residency awareness.
• Experience with high-volume/transactional platforms.
• AI-first mindset with Claude Copilot CLI or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement observability strategy, instrumentation, logging, and tracing.
• Identify monitoring gaps and define SLIs/SLOs aligned with customer and business impact.
• Build and maintain New Relic, Grafana, and Kibana/ELK dashboards.
• Implement OpenTelemetry, APM, distributed tracing, and centralized logging.
• Monitor alerts, support on-call operations, incident escalation, and postmortems.
• Tune alerts and drive improvements in MTTD/MTTR and error-budget performance.
• Develop technical and business KPI dashboards for application and transaction health.
• Establish observability standards, runbooks, naming conventions, and governance.
• Ensure compliance with security, PII, audit, and data residency requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Compliance teams to improve platform reliability.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

New Relic

Grafana

Kibana/ELK

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Structured logging

Prometheus

BI tools

ArgoCD

Claude / Copilot tools

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Copilot CLI

Job description

Aanseacore is seeking an experienced SRE/Observability Senior Engineer with 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Observability. You will own observability strategy, instrumentation, monitoring, tracing, dashboards, alerts, and incident management across distributed applications.

You will build dashboards in Grafana and Kibana/ELK, implement OpenTelemetry, define SLIs/SLOs, tune alerts, support on-call, and collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Compliance to improve platform reliability.